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Greg XXX wrote:
Can you run Pandora, Voice GPS navigation, be logged in to AIM and make a call all at the same time on the iPhone?

Technically you can't on the Pre either. Pandora will of course silence, and your data connection will die once you make a voice call over Sprint's network (your IM's will go offline, and GPS navigation will lose its ability to refresh maps).

Technically you can't on the Pre either. Pandora will of course silence, and your data connection will die once you make a voice call over Sprint's network (your IM's will go offline, and GPS navigation will lose its ability to refresh maps).

That being said, I still like my Pre more than I liked my iPhone

Yes, Pandora will silence but keep running, GPS will silence but keep running and AIM will go offline but keep running.
Then when the call is done you're back to where you were when you started.

Since I stated you can run all that stuff at the same time on the Pre, you most definitely can.

I was at home the other day and was streaming Pandora and looking at the Today Show application when... a phone call came in and I took it. During the call, I brought up Fandango to look up movie times and had no issues (on wifi) and then added the movie to my calendar, finished the call and hung up. Pandora started streaming where it left off and I decided to close the Today Show app. I call that pretty good multitasking! Woo hoo!

True, you can run all this stuff at the same time, but some of its utility is questionable, especially in the case of the IM client. An iPhone user would tease that they can still get push notifications while taking calls. (calls seems to be one of the few things you can quit out of and still open up other apps - safari, notes, etc).

That being said I like the pre's multitasking as much the next guy. Like you I switched from the iPhone to the Pre, and am preferring it.

I was at home the other day and was streaming Pandora and looking at the Today Show application when... a phone call came in and I took it. During the call, I brought up Fandango to look up movie times and had no issues (on wifi) and then added the movie to my calendar, finished the call and hung up. Pandora started streaming where it left off and I decided to close the Today Show app. I call that pretty good multitasking! Woo hoo!

Excellent story. Card view is a truly amazing invention. Though I just wanted to point out iPhones can use 3g data and voice at the same time, without needing wifi. The Pre probably will be able to do this too once (if) it comes to AT&T.

Just a friendly reminder while you can root Pres remember we can jailbreak iPhones and listen to Pandora in the background too. You guys get to do it in a MUCH nicer way though. Haha.

"I don’t care what the newspapers say about me, just spell my name right”. P.T. Barnum

The fact that threads keep coming up about Apple and the iPhone in this forum proves Barnum was right.... and validates the fact that the iPhone is THE smartphone which all others are judged.

I have the Pre.... but the buzz the iPhone gets whether its good or bad is still BUZZ... my hats off to Apple.

Well, I'd say the fact that there are a number of Fanboys that regularly come out of the bushes to defend The Collective says something as well. Not to mention that the Mac forums are posting links from threads here...

"I don’t care what the newspapers say about me, just spell my name right”. P.T. Barnum

The fact that threads keep coming up about Apple and the iPhone in this forum proves Barnum was right.... and validates the fact that the iPhone is THE smartphone which all others are judged.

I have the Pre.... but the buzz the iPhone gets whether its good or bad is still BUZZ... my hats off to Apple.

Exactly. Keep posting these useless threads guys. You're only acknowledging that the iPhone has you scared & that you need these little reassurances that the Pre is all that. Its an old trick. Its the same reason as to why people who have secret homosexual tendencies bash gay people & are sudo macho. Because they're not comfortable with themselves.

The pre rocks, and the iphones also a badass phone. There are differences and similarities that make each better to other people.

If it wasn't for the Iphone the pre wouldn't exist. If it wasn't for Palm the iphone wouldn't exist. Just realize that this competition will only make things get better and Palm and Apple will continue to try and One up eachother for years.